problems with ctype...

[Andreas Jaeger]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > It certainly works fine for me, but I am not using the same tools.
>> > I am using GCC 3.2 with RH modifications and binutils is also a RH version.
>> 
>> I just tried it with newer binutils (2.12.90.0.15 20020717) and that
>> worked fine.  We might need to document the minimal supported binutils
>> version.
>
> Ours is binutils 2.13.90.0.2. Well, we need to find out the oldest
> binutils which worked ok and also write a binutils testcase whcih will
> ensure this will work right from now on.

I can easily test this with my old and broken binutils (2.12.90.0.4
20020408) but so far I didn't fully grab the problem and how a
testcase might look.

> I think it is an useful feature to be able to access a compat-only variable
> (and getting to it through aliases doesn't work because of COPY relocs).

Andreas
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